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As a kid I played a lot of Killer Gorilla on the BBC micro. This game was a clone of Donkey Kong.
Like Donkey Kong it had four levels, which the game rotated through and on each rotation they got ...
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Scott Manley, in his second video about communication satellites, focusing on the 1963 Telstar 1, mentioned at 10:22:
(Telstar 1) could be used for telephones it could carry multiple circuits, it ...
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I hope this is an OK place to ask this question.
The Internet Archive has a Macintosh floppy image containing presets for an old E-mu synthesizer module. The page is here Proteus Preset Libraries
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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In the late 1980s to mid 1990s, most consumer-class video hardware was not capable of displaying greater than 16 colours at a time. To create the illusion of greater colour, software often "blended" ...
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Is there a historical reason? Since it is rewritable it isn't read only by definition, so why call it so?
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I'm trying to find the name of a PC game I used to play as a kid in the early/mid-2000s. All I remember from it is that it was a 2D platformer and that one of the levels looked like the following ...
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It's clear where many of the design decisions of IEEE 754 floating point come from. For example, the binary format maximizes efficiency on binary hardware. And 32 and 64 bits for single and double ...
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In general, there are two types of syntax of defining functions - Something like C, C++, C#, or Java (int functionName(char arg)) vs the ML (and others) tradition of defining the return type after the ...
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Anyone who used an pre-Kickstart 2.0 Amiga will be very familiar with the "Insert Workbench floppy" image:
I realise that this is subjective, but the image has always stuck me as ... well, a bit ugly....
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(Posted this on HW Rec but got no responses.)
Would like to use an ISA expansion card in a modern PC. There are
Expensive PCI - ISA adapters (but I cannot find any actually for sale now)
USB-ISA ...
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